Masking the private methods from classes?

[rickg22]

Guys, I was compiling CB the other day when I realized that everytime I wanted to add a new event handling method to C::B, the *WHOLE* SDK had to be recompiled. AND the plugins. :x

So I thought about this: What if we subclass say, EditorManager (as an example) this way:

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class EditorManager:public wxEvtHandler
{
  public:
    ...
 (no private stuff here)
}

And in the .cpp file:

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class myEditorManager:public EditorManager
{
  (insert your event handling methods here)
}

This way, we could tamper with it and add/remove private methods as we please, without having to recompile dependent files! (This would also bring stability to 3rd-party plugins, since they wouldn't have to be recompiled everytime we make an internal change in the SDK).

Pros/cons, everyone? Or is there an easier way?